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Introduction
As a qualitative methodologist, I finishing the final edits on a study examining self-determination, self-preservation and HIV prevention in black transgender women. I am also preparing a proposal examining durable viral suppression in black gay men.
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August 2000 - present
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- Associate Professor
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- As a tenured associate social work professor, I teach in the clinical sequence of a The U Albany, MSW program. These include Spirituality and Social Work, Cultural Diversity and Social Work, Micro 1& 2 and I teach an advanced policy analysis course, Africa Policy in Social work. My research program interrogates the intersection of social work, public health and spirituality, related to HIV prevention in POC sexual minorities.
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Publications (12)
Purpose: The current study seeks to investigate the extent to which factors such as income and child support along with relationship factors such as family structure and communication with the custodial mother potentially mitigate overall parent satisfaction for African American noncustodial fathers (NCFs) with multi-partnered fertility (MPF). Meth...
This study explored how 60 Black clergy came to publicly and theologically support Black gay men. They participated in three 90-minute life history interviews to address the study aims. Open, axial and selective coding were used to understand and order themes within their accounts while addressing specific aims. Life events, purpose-driven theologi...
This article explores the contributing factors to the endemic problems exacerbating the AIDS crisis in South Africa. The legacy of Apartheid, including the attendant problems of poverty, illiteracy, and disparate health statuses between the beneficiaries and victims of Apartheid, is explored. Because women are bearing the brunt of the infection, th...
This qualitative study describes the adolescent sexual development of ten African American gay men living with AIDS. The informants retrospectively describe the challenges of being a gay adolescent in a mostly heterosexist and homophobic environment. They report unsupportive homophobic and heterosexist family members, community members and school o...
This qualitative study explores the religious development and spiritual formation of African American gay men living with
AIDS. In response to an in-depth interviewing approach, 10 men described their experiences of church participation. The participants'
data reveal their religious initiation and participation as well as their need to extinguish t...
This article describes how an African American gay man living with AIDS used his spiritual, religious, and cultural strengths to resist internalized dislocation because of heterosexism and homophobia. He was able to experience a relocation of God from places that rejected him to places that were conducive to his healing. By using these strengths, h...
This qualitative study describes how ten African American gay men understand and utilize spirituality while living with AIDS. The narrative data indicate spirituality is a significant strength for these men. The participants describe spirituality, a relationship with God, as interactive, integrative, and protective. They indicate that spirituality...
After examining the historic and continued experience of homophobia espoused by catechetical doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church, this article invites people who have been deeply wounded by the clergy sexual misconduct scandal to actively use spirituality to reframe their relationship with the Church. The Buddhist notion of crisis, which contains...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 2000. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 164-174). Department: Social Work.
